Air Force Space and Missile Museum

St. Paul's Baptist Church -- 1865

This is the first Negro church established in Anderson County. It was founded immediately after emancipation and incorporated in 1873. The Rev. Philip Morris was its first pastor. The present edifice, built in 1903, replaced two earlier frame sanctuaries and ...

Site of First African American High School in Anderson County

Reed Street High School

After another high school was built, Reed Street High was renamed Perry Elementary School.

Perry Elementary later became known as

Perry Child Development Center.

This memorial is dedicated to the students teachers and principals who were a part of these ...

Corsicana Public Library

The women's clubs of Corsicana were instrumental in opening the city's first public library in 1901 at W. 6th and

Main St. The city created a library board in 1904 and secured a construction grant from the Carnegie Corporation the ...

Alva Everett Taylor

(July 19, 1891-Dec. 8, 1965)

Grassroots researcher-writer and historical preservationist whose work led to development of this pioneer village.

Born near Dawson (10 mi. SW), Taylor attended Baylor University (1911-13), married Maud Stockard (1914), and was

father of 3 children. Farming, ...

Site of the Home of General James Longstreet

Lee’s “Old War Horse.”

Marker is at the intersection of Longstreet Circle and Park Hill Drive, on the left when traveling east on Longstreet Circle.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Bartow County Courthouse

Circa 1873

Has been placed on the

National Register of Historic Places

By the United States Department of the Interior

Marker is at the intersection of East Church Street and North Museum Drive, on the right when traveling west on East Church Street.

Courtesy ...

Polk County, C.S.A..

During Civil War, 1861-65, an area of piney woods, farms, thickets, with an Alabama-Coushatta Indian reservation. Had only 600 voters in 1860 but sent 900 soldiers into the Confederate Army.

Furnished 4 units to Hood's Texas Brigade (Co. B, 1st ...

Civil War Site

On April 5, 1862, Company A of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry camped here during the occupation of the Raleigh Court House.

Marker is on Main Street, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Death at Point Lookout

It is hard to imagine this tranquil site as a place of sickness, suffering and death. Yet during the Civil War, five graveyards marked Point Lookout.

Why so many graves? In 1863, Union forces chose this isolated spot for a ...